Over the past year or two, some of the fanciest coffee shops, bars and bistros have mushroomed around the intersection of Wangfu Da Jie (王府大街) and Nantai Xiang (南台巷). The Sauce, Wine Thieves, Bitter Brew, Southern Trip, Staff Only,...
It’s the place where the lower and upper classes would be required to intermingle ahead of an assuredly somewhat long journey. With air travel a thing of the future, and not a single bridge across the mighty Yangtze River,...
More or less stumbling in at random, on one of those can’t-be-bothered-cooking kinds of days, we were glad we chose Oyster Bistro from among the many newish eateries to have popped up in past year or two on Hubin...
Stuff can sure cost a pretty penny in China, but it can also be darned cheap. In one of the Middle Kingdom’s greatest dichotomies, international brand names manufacture in China because it’s cheap, then sell it out the back...
Shui Hua (水华) was a film director and screenwriter who maintained artistic integrity while also appealing to the general public with his simplicity and a subtle but clear personal style.
水华（水华）是一位电影导演和编剧，他保持了艺术诚信，同时以他的简单和微妙但清晰的个人风格吸引了公众。
Born in Nanjing on 23 November, 1916, Shui devoted himself...
“No duck leaves Nanjing alive.”
Statistics show that the City of Nanjing consumes over 100 million ducks each year. Everyone has heard of Nanjing ducks, but they are too often misunderstood. Visitors and tourists to Confucius Temple feel obliged to...
Consummate shoppers among our alert readers will know all too well that China’s top-performing shopping mall is SKP (新光天地) in Beijing, with yearly sales of ¥13.5 billion. And the only other mall in China in that club with a...
I had a rather curious dream. A restaurant had opened in Nanjing that had decent craft beer, and it was open all day, every day (I know, I know...). The head chef was an eccentrically bearded Chinese man whose...
